My sister and I took a road-trip to random cities in MO the other day. A guy she knew paid for her gas to drop him off in Rolla, Missouri. Apparently he wanted to meet his fiance and he can't see well enough to drive, even with glasses. So if it were me, I'd want to live with the guy before becoming their fiance. Or at least, become the fiance then live together. Nope. They're some sort of religious-something so they can't do that? Whatever.
Anyway the whole long distance thing must really suck. He had to find a way to get there and then a way to get back for engagement photos.And then he asked us to go at 5am! Which I didn't know until the day before..and I didn't sleep until maybe 1am and I kept waking up every hour.
To take this kid to a waffle house.
For his fiance.

On the way back, we basically discovered the middle of nowhere. We found Rolla, Cuba, Steelville, St. James, Bourbon, and a town somewhere near Cuba that isn't big enough to be on a map. And I just have to say, that by far, the coolest thing we found was the Vacuum Museum! We eventually found the Vacuum Museum tucked away in a warehouse. There was a really excited guy there to inform us all about the vacuums and explain how there are only 3 more vacuum companies left in existance. Then he had a sales pitch about the vacuums they make in the room above the museum.

There were vacuums from the 1910's (that still worked and are pictured above), the 1920's, 1930's, 1940's, 1950's, and on to the 2000's.

Then we found the world's largest rocking chair! OMG.

..which was actually a statue. I should've known.

bitch GPS

Then we tried to find another museum, which was a bust. The GPS took us to the middle of nowhere on the hilly-est road I've been on in such a long time! In case you weren't aware, Illinois is made of flat, flat, corn land, and extra flat land. The tiny hills of MO were a roller coaster on hwy 8! It was dreadful..and hilarious. We went into the nearest gas station, after getting our brains splattered on the top of our skulls and feeling too old for roller coasters, looking for food. They had a buffet that was awesomely filled with greasy food like fried mac and cheese, fried chicken, bosco sticks, and potato wedges.

Lovely box of acid reflux

That was really exciting. Our lovely box of acid reflux was supposed to cost like $7, but the attendant overheard my sister on the phone about our roller coaster experience..which was apparently hysterical to her and a few other gas station attendants.. so when I went to buy our food, it was $1.85!

The whole way, we were taking photos that were supposed to be expressive in urban decay (with fancy clothes). Here.